Improvement in top-props for carriages



L. SAWYER. Top-Prop for Carriages.

No. 196,390. Patented Oct. 23,1871.

' WITNESSES: INVBNTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD SAWYER, OF MERRIMAO, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOP-PROPS FOR CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,390, dated October23, 1877; application filed August 18, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD SAWYER, of Merrimac, in the coinlty of Essexand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Prop forCarriage-Tops, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section on line a a; in Fig. 2 of my improvedtop-prop. is an end view with the nut removed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. 7

The invention will first be described in 0011- nection with the drawing,and then pointed out in the claim.

Fig. 2.

The outside of the socket.

covering the leather around the socket b, and the outer end of thethimble is hexagonal, to adapt it to a wrench.

The bolt 0 is flattened on one side from the thimble B outward, and toit washers g are fitted. One of these washers is placed against theouter end of the thimble, and the other just inside of the nut 71, thatholds the bracest' j on the bolt. 1

It will be seen that as thewashers g cannot turn on the bolt, the nut hand thimble will not be unscrewed by the action of the braces.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The combination, With cap-nut h, braces i j,

